The evening world., 1887-12-09
HARD WORK REWARDED.
A BRIGHT COUNTRY GIRLS WAY OF Sue
CEEDING IN THE CITY.

She Works Out Until She Learns Dres.m.k.
ing and Then Rents n Flat and Starts
Business for HcrscIf-Hclpinx n Brother
and Two sisters to Get on in Life-Try.
ing TO Pay on the Debt on the Old Home.
In these days Of low wages and keen com.
petition in the lower grades of woman's work
in this city. it is gratifying to know that
sppe do win success. While searching
though the realms of shop work, as told
recently in the evening edition of TEE
WORLD, a reporter discovered q genuine suc-
cess-a little country settlement of four coun-
try girls and boys in Twenty-third street.
Receiving an impetus from the city shop
work sent into the country, a Bergen County
On. J.) girl determined to advance. She
sought employment in o New York shop
where nothing but dress waists or bodies
were made. She then decided to learn the
dressmaker's trade.
At first she worked for her living and in
structlon. Then small wages were paid her.
Being strong and healthy she was enabled to
perform a good deal of labor, and began to
do work outside the SHOP. As soon as she
thought that she knew enough she went out
to work on dresses by the day or week. She
thus got her living and money besides, but
lived IN uncomfortable and wandering life.
She had q younger brother who was anx-
ious to come to New York to work, and as
the prosperous firm that employed him could
not pay him enough to live on, she gave him
q fixed sum each week until he should be-
come self-supporting.
When that point was reached the young
woman settled down i'll q boarding-house
where she and her brother could be together,
and advertised for her customers to come to
her. Her work increased, and she called to
her help q younger sister. The new firm
prospered until it required more room. With
the good sense and acute judgment displayed
all along, the young people began to search
for O home.
A furnished fiat in Twenty-third street was
selected and leased for q year. The best
front rooms were let for enough to pay the
rent, when the little country woman, still
the room she wanted, for the cost Of light
and fuel. And she had a home for her
brother and sister, where both could 60 to
work, and to school as we'll. All have Joined
some evening classes and are studying to i'm
prove their Quotations.
Added to all of this, another younger sister
has been brought to the home in the city
where she can receive better training to pre-
pare herself for teaching,
A reporter called recently at the. Twenty
third street home. It was an evening when
all were together. Three stout country girls,
now hard to tell from the city maidens, ex-
cept by the roses on their fresh cheeks, and
a young man were in the sitting-room seated
around the register or near the centre table
in the room, which was neatly and comfort
ably furnished.
The girls were at work on small pieces of
hand-work sewing, while the brother was
reading aloud from Dickens. They come
from a farm in the country, and all declare
that they will work to pay the debt of the
old place.
Every Sunday morning these three young
girls, with their big brother" 80 the neigh
bors say, go regularly to an uptown church
and Sunday-school.
Thus 2 country. girl, poor and single;
success. 1t has long been q favorite theme Of
public speakers to tell of the wonderful sue
cesses of country boys who have com to the
city and won distinction. Now they have q
working girl.